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The enlightement

The Enlightenment has been defined in many different ways, but at its broadest was a philosophical, intellectual and cultural movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It stressed reason, logic, criticism and freedom of thought over dogma, blind faith and superstition

Hogarth

Marraige a la Mode

1745

Pompeii and Herlaneum

2 towns that were under major excavation in Italy in the 18th century. They’d been buried in a major volcanic eruption and perfectly preserved many on the elements of the town, including the paintings. Appealed to society for their mysterious nature, in an age of reason

Grand Tour

A cultural tour of Europe conventionally undertaken, esp. in the 18th century, by a young, upper-class man as a part of his education

Kauffmann

Mother of the Gracchi

1785

David

Oath of the Haratii

1784

David

Death of Marat

1793

Ancien Regime

a political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution

Jacobins

member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.